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Donors Share in 10 Years by Continuing Commitments

Donors Share in 10 Years by Continuing Commitments

Together, we are Reaching America.  On July 13, 2012, Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services celebrated 10 years of live-changing operations and programming.  

Our donors responded to this celebration with their continued commitment to our Nation’s veterans and military families. Their gifts and investments enabled our ability to impact more than 2.4 million individuals and organizations. Dixon Center is thankful to all those who made a commitment to continue to increase their impact on the future for the Nation’s veterans and military families. Want to have an impact on our next ten years? You can. Your generous, tax deductible donation to Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services is making a positive difference in the lives of veterans and their families.

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Veterans Forward-Communities Assisting Veterans, Maine Edition

Veterans Forward-Communities Assisting Veterans, Maine Edition

Maine is a big state with a small population, but it is blessed with one of the highest per capita population of veterans of any state in the union. The rural nature of the state and distances required to travel create challenges when it comes to access to services and supports for veterans of the Pine Tree State. With the assistance of Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services, Veterans Forward has been created by Fedcap Serving Maine. Veterans Forward provides veterans, service members, and their families critically needed support in emergency situations such as housing, substance use treatment, home heating assistance, food and clothing, and job training across the state of Maine.

Veterans Forward couldn’t have arrived at a more critical time.  The challenge of living on a fixed income forces many of our veterans to make hard choices between food, fuel, and medical care.

It is Summer now but with Winter always just around the corner in Maine, these choices can have real life and death considerations. Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services stands at the ready to help organizations like Veterans Forward in Maine and those like it across the nation assist veterans and their families so they can thrive in their communities.

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Opportunities for Veteran Entrepreneurs in the Federal Marketplace

Opportunities for Veteran Entrepreneurs in the Federal Marketplace

Dixon Center for Military & Veterans Services, Service Before Self, a podcast that tackles the evolving needs of veterans and their families, based on the belief that veterans can succeed in the community where they live.Listen to Veterans Helping Veterans Become Entrepreneurs with Colonel (Ret., USMC) Scott Jensen, Executive Director, National Veteran Small Business Coalition (NVSBC).  NVSBC provides nationally recognized training, networking, and advocacy for veteran small business entrepreneurs in the federal market to ensure they are procurement ready and have enhanced access to opportunities to start, operate, sustain, and grow competitive and strong businesses serving Federal agencies and other government contractors.

In this episode, your host, Retired Army Colonel Sam Whitehurst, Dixon Center Vice President of Programs & Services, and Scott, discuss the opportunities available in the $30 billion a year in federal contracting that is set aside for veteran small business owners. Scott shares insights on keys to successfully navigating the federal marketplace and how NVSBC is a true partner in assisting veteran entrepreneurs through mentorship, training, and networking. As Scott puts it, “NVSBC is veterans helping veterans become small business owners!”Subscribe To/Follow Service Before Self Podcast

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Save the Date: Annual Holiday Reception

Save the Date: Annual Holiday Reception

Save the DateDixon Center for Military and Veterans ServicesAnnual Holiday ReceptionTuesday Evening, December 13, 2022 from 6:00pm – 8:00pm ESTWashington, D.C.

Please Save the Date of our Annual Holiday Reception and Awards Ceremony.

About this Event

We hope that you will save the date for our annual holiday reception and award ceremony. We use this time every year to thank our friends, families, supporters, and donors. Every year we recognize special individuals and organizations with our four awards:

The Eugene and Ruth Freedman Leadership Award

The Herbert and Carolyn Metzger Service Award

The Michael “Mick” Yauger Point Man Award

The Lou Lowenkron Commitment to Veterans Excellence Award

Please Save the Date and we look forward to another successful event. Watch for more information and announcements.

Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Servicesc/o The Fedcap Group633 3rd Avenue, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10017www.dixoncenter.org

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Donors React to Memorial Day & Basic Needs

Donors React to Memorial Day & Basic Needs

Thank you to our donors who throughout the month of May made donations to Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services. These donors made memorial gifts in remembrance of a loved one who has passed away. By giving a donation in memory of a family member or friend, these donors are recognizing a special individual while also affirming their shared values and commitment to our nation’s fallen over Memorial Day Weekend. In June, we were honored to receive investments supporting Women Veterans Emergency Financial Assistance. This crisis intervention program recognizes the unique financial challenges women veterans face in creating stable, fulfilling lives for themselves and their families as they reintegrate into civilian life.  Our donation process is simple and quick. In just 30 seconds, your donation will be on its way to enable our veterans and their families to succeed where they live. And again, thank you to our nearly 2,000 donors.  

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10 Amazing Years

10 Amazing Years

Tomorrow, Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services will celebrate 10 years of impact.This is an exciting time for our team. It is the opportunity to double-down on our noble purpose: to make the lives of our veterans and their families better. 

This is the chance to build upon the success across our 3 pillars, 13 programs, and 356 projects over the past 10 years and to recommit ourselves.

Our Commitment:

  • We Listen – We know that the needs of our veterans are evolving, not disappearing
  • We Collaborate – We believe that every organization and individual can effectively integrate veterans and their families into their existing community-based programs.
  • We Adapt – We know that every veteran, military member, and their families are unique, and we respect and honor their differences by remaining flexible in our response.
  • We Respond – We work with other to develop and deploy solutions before problems become and crisis.
  • We Persevere – We know the importance of never giving up on our veterans and their families to ensure they reach their full potential.
  • We are Transparent – We are disciplined in our fiscal responsibility, with regular disclosures about financial and operational performance and impact.

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See How You’re Enabling Veterans & Their Families

See How You’re Enabling Veterans & Their Families

This July 13th, we celebrate our 10th Anniversary.

With a decade of impact under our belt you can check out examples of our 356 projects by swiping across our 13 programs while visiting the landing pages of our 3 work pillars – Work with Purpose, Heal with Honor, and Live with Hope – on our website. We are very proud of our achievements over the past 10 years.

Please donate today to Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services and make a positive difference in the lives of veterans and their families. Don’t just make an investment. Have an impact.

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Celebrate & Share Your Patriotism On July 4th

Celebrate & Share Your Patriotism On July 4th

July Fourth celebrates the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It’s a showcase for patriotism. But what does all of this really mean? 

Patriotism comes from the heart. It’s what you believe and what you care about. It’s a sense of belonging and part of the culture one embraces. 
In the military, service members and their families live it during each and every mission they undertook.

Many of those who served are now veterans. They fought for our country, our families, our neighbors, our community, and our buddies on the left and the right. We will all be celebrating the Fourth and checking on each other. 

Some of our team will spend the morning at Mount Vernon, home of George Washington, who led the military movement for independence. Close to 246 years later, members of our Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services served on multi-national military teams committed to carrying forward this belief, participating in the fight for three other countries (Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan) to have independence. In the afternoon, we will join co-workers, friends and family celebrating our 10-year anniversary of continued service to veterans and military families so that we all can live happy, productive, independent lives. 

Embrace the day! What will you be reflecting on while you recognize our nation’s freedom and your own patriotism?

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Advocates React To Our 10 Year Retrospective

Advocates React To Our 10 Year Retrospective

As part of our anniversary we have published our 10 Year Retrospective. In this document we share our 10 years of work making the lives of our veterans and their families better. Reactions have been inspiring:

“The Retrospective has captured the essence of our work across 3 work pillars, 13 programs, and 356 projects over the past 10 years.” – David Sutherland, Chairman, Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services

“Spot on.” – Retired Army Colonel Tim Karcher

“This is wonderful tribute to the Center’s many years of hard work.” – Jim Williams, former Easterseals Inc. CEO and President

“Great job putting this booklet together. Very informative.” – John Anderson, 2021 Herbert Metzger Service Award Recipient. 

“Very impressive and I know you are proud.” – Retired Army Colonel John Woodward

“Inciteful.” – Brian Hull, Dixon Center Command Council Member

This July 13th, Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services will celebrate 10 years of impact.

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Easier To Give

Easier To Give

We are pleased to announce that as part of our 10th Anniversary celebration we have created a QR Code that is making it easier for supporters to give donations supporting our work by creating a truly unique Scan-to-Donate Now (QR Code).

As a leader, our director of development, Vanessa Stergios is constantly looking for easier ways for our donors to give. Our friends and supporters will be seeing us using our QR code in creative ways, including:

  • As a quick and easily shareable way to direct people to our Donate Now form or social media or in email campaigns
  • On direct mail or fundraising packs as a way for people to donate or even view multimedia that will tell the Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services story in different ways
  • As a way to add contactless donation to public advertising – like we did during our 2021 Vision Summit with their advertising boards
  • On merchandise such as mugs, pins, shirts, on our business cards, and signs

Sara Heidenheimer, our program and administrative manager determined the “QR Code to be a cost-effective way to reduce the use of paper at events, where users can be directed to our recently redesigned webpage instead of handing out fliers. We will stop printing and save money.”

This is an exciting time for Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services as it is our 10th Anniversary. Since May 13, 2012, Dixon Center’s collaboration and capacity building has impacted more than 2.4 million individuals and organizations. We are also very proud of the fact that every dollar that supports our work was donated by American patriots like you. Based on our financial statements under the umbrella of The Fedcap Group, 88% of total expenditures went directly toward programming.

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